YP Letters: PM shopping around for EU supporters

IT is reported that a meeting at Downing Street was held last week between the Prime Minister and major names from the high street.

The purpose of the meeting was to solicit support from these retail giants in favour of remaining in the EU.

The names included Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Adsa, Marks & Spencer, Boots and Dixons Carphone.

Noticeably missing from the attendees were Aldi and Lidl.

From: David Downs, Mountbatten Avenue, Sandal, Wakefield.

MPs and leading civil servants must be the most hypocritical of all accepted professions but, just like my car, are a necessary evil and are in constant need of scrutiny and maintenance.

It is easier to monitor and keep control of our own 650 UK MPs rather than adding further thousands of MEPs and EU Commissioners, no doubt many with their fingers also in the till.

From: Phil Hanson, Baildon.

I HAVE just watched Andrew Marr quizzing Boris Johnson on the EU and I must admit, as someone who made a career out of ensuring my products complied both with EU and local national legislation within Europe, I was amazed at how ignorant Andrew Marr, and the media in general, is regarding the rules. If we elect to leave the EU, we will still be able to sell our products and services within the EU where they are already type-approved.

From: ME Wright, Harrogate.

WATCHING, with mouth agape, the latest US Presidential 3rd Form antics, I wondered if we should consider asking the OED to redefine “Trumpery”. While the braying and yah-booing of our lot is little better, their sound is perhaps slightly less abrasive to the British ear.

All this and Ruthven Urquhart’s “neverendum” (The Yorkshire Post, March 5) lead me to consider packing a bag with discs and heading for some desert island.

Might the honey-voiced Kirsty Young be there to greet me? I can dream!

From: DM Loxley, Hartoft.

FOR those who wish for the UK to remain within the European Union, here are three of the benefits which we have acquired to date:

1) Value Added Tax – this was a pre-requisite to our joining the European Economic Community and it abolished purchase tax.

2) “Use by” and “best before” limits mean that we can throw away more stuff than previously without feeling guilty about it. We become a better waste-more-want-more society.

3) The European Arrest Warrant. Anyone who steals your identity can commit a crime within the EU and you will be taken there and required to prove that it was not you.

Fascinating!

From: Dr Glyn Powell, Kellington, Goole.

I FIND it utterly bizarre that we are governed by members of a political party that is split down the middle on EU membership. Even more worrying is that for the next three months, members of the Cabinet will not have their eye on the ball of governing in the best interests of the country.

As a socialist, I have always been vehemently opposed to our membership of the capitalist EU club. Britain would be economically stronger outside the EU, forging trade deals with India, China, Russia and South American countries.

From: Arthur Quarmby, Underhill, Holme.

I HOPE we have all noted and learned from the first threats issued by two of our EU partners, saying what they would do to us if we quit their Union?

From France comes the threat that in response they would send all their immigrants straight across to Britain. The German car company BMW threatens the future of its Rolls Royce subsidiary.

If these threats were pointers to the future, then this referendum might prove to be Britain’s last chance of peacefully leaving the EU.

Because once locked in to unity, then it is highly likely that our descendants will have to fight their way out of this undemocratic, unaccountable monster.

From: Denis Angood, Leeds.

AT the end of the day, the EU decision will come down to a personal choice of whether the country and population as a whole will be more advantaged by remaining or leaving.

My own decision has not altered from my choice years ago when the vote was taken to join. I was not convinced of the benefits then and have experienced nothing from membership that would convince me to change either.

From: Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield.

ACCORDING to the dire warnings emanating from the disjointed “Remain” campaign, either the UK is so insignificant that we cannot survive out of the EU and we will be ignored and isolated by other countries, or we are such a powerful and important country that our mere decision to leave the EU is supposed to pose a serious threat to the whole global economy.

Clearly Les Parkes is in the latter camp (The Yorkshire Post, March 3) when he complains that Nigel Farage did not address the threat of world economic ruin. When the UK leaves the EU, we will neither be isolated nor cause economic Armageddon. Nor will the skies darken and the Universe implode.